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Battle of Midway. Akagi (Japanese: 赤城, "Red castle", named after Mount Akagi) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Though she was laid down as an Amagi -class battlecruiser, Akagi was converted to an aircraft carrier while still under construction to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. [7][8][9] The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of ...
Richard Halsey Best. VB-6 pilots in January 1942: Best is seated 3rd from the left. Richard Halsey Best (March 24, 1910 – October 28, 2001) was a dive bomber pilot and squadron commander in the United States Navy during World War II. Stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, Best led his dive bomber squadron at the 1942 Battle of ...
The First Air Fleet (Dai-ichi Kōkū Kantai) was a major component of the Combined Fleet (Rengō Kantai). When created on 10 April 1941, it had three kōkū sentai (air flotillas; in the case of aircraft carriers, carrier divisions): On that date, First Kōkū Sentai consisted of Akagi and Kaga and their aircraft units.
Akagi after her launch in April 1925; she had already been converted to an aircraft carrier. Akagi was the first ship of the class to be laid down; construction began on 6 December 1920 at the naval yard in Kure. Amagi followed ten days later at the Yokosuka naval yard. The projected completion dates for the first pair of ships were December ...
The aircraft was also given a "short designation" consisting of a group of Roman letters and numbers. The first letter (sometimes two) indicated the basic type or purpose of the aircraft. Second came a series number indicating the number of major sub-types produced for that type of aircraft.
Aircraft carriers. 6 heavy and 6 light (plus 7 building ) (1) Hōshō built in 1922. Akagi (2) (ex-battlecruiser converted by 1927) — †1942. Kaga (ex-battleship converted in 1928) — †1942. Ryūjō completed 1933 — †1942. Sōryū — †1942. Hiryū — †1942. 2 Zuihō class commissioned as aircraft carriers 1940-1941.
Kaga (Japanese: 加賀, named after the ancient Kaga Province) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Originally intended to be one of two Tosa-class battleships, Kaga was converted under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty to an aircraft carrier as the replacement for the battlecruiser Amagi, which had been irreparably damaged during the 1923 Great Kantō ...